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I'm Baffled....What Caused This to happen?

by Jagged
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Thank you for taking a look. I hope someone has the knowhow to find out what happened and what I need to do to correct it.

OK...I have a wordpress site for a client, using studiopress 1.0
I haven't done anything to the site for a while now. Never had any issues with it since day one. All of a sudden the menu is distorted in other browsers. It seems just fine in Internet Explorer browser, but in firefox and safari the navigation menu splits....

I tried updating all plug-ins, wordress version, even made sure IE & firefox was up to date. Like I said....I haven't been in the backend of the site for at least 6 months...everything was just fine until about 2 weeks ago.

What can cause this to happen?
More importantly...what can I do to correct this issue?

The site is www.azmovingservice.com
Looks fine in IE, but menu is distorted in other browsers like firefox, safari

Any wordpress experts care to have a poke at this?

Would be much appreciated....
Thanks,

Ken Perry
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  • Profile picture of the author ItWasLuck3
    I'm no expert, and I'd love to take a look, maybe I could give a little advice, but when I try and get to your site to poke around to see it, I get this message:

    "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute."

    I'm gonna assume this is temporary... I'd love to have a look.
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  • Profile picture of the author drewhowell21
    For some reason it seems to be adding a lot of extra links in there. I'm a little confused as well.



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    • Profile picture of the author Jagged
      Originally Posted by drewhowell21 View Post

      For some reason it seems to be adding a lot of extra links in there. I'm a little confused as well.
      I appreciate you taking the time to look at this and offer your view....thank you.

      This is what I am seeing....using firefox / view source:

      I do see the "extra link" under the header, but I only see 1 link in the "nav" area...where you are showing 2 ???

      Where do I go to edit that? In the site admin / appearance / editor....it's all in PHP & different that whats shown here?

      <h1 class="sitename"><a href="http://azmovingservice.com">ARIZONA MOVING SERVICE</a></h1><a href="http://azmovingservice.com"><h2 class="sitedesc">Helping You Move In The Right Direction</h2></div><!-- Closes underHeader --><div id="nav"><ul><li class="current_page"><a href='http://azmovingservice.com' title='Home'><span>Home</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=2" title="What We Do"><span>What We Do</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=8" title="Quick Quote"><span>Quick Quote</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=10" title="Packing Tips"><span>Packing Tips</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=13" title="Contact Us"><span>Contact Us</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=15" title="Testimonials"><span>Testimonials</span></a></li><li><a href="http://azmovingservice.com/?page_id=84" title="gallery"><span>gallery</span></a></li></ul><div class="cleared"></div></div> <!-- Closes Nav -->
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      • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
        Originally Posted by Jagged View Post

        Where do I go to edit that? In the site admin / appearance / editor....it's all in PHP & different that whats shown here?

        <h1 class="sitename"><a href="http://azmovingservice.com">ARIZONA MOVING SERVICE</a></h1><a href="http://azmovingservice.com"><h2 class="sitedesc">
        If you look at just this part, the link between </h1> and the h2 tag, it doesn't have a closing /a tag. Not sure if that's the cause of all your problems, but that is going to screw something up. It doesn't have a purpose, isn't shown as a link, and should be deleted. <a href="http://azmovingservice.com"> (the part that should be deleted)

        If you hover over that little patch of white, it will show (http://azmovingservice.com), which indicates to me that is where the problem is. I had to add the curved brackets to get the forum software to stop showing it as an anchor text link.
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  • Profile picture of the author ItWasLuck3
    Ok I just checked it again... Like drewhowell21 pointed out, if you pull up firebug you'll see that extra line is the culprit.

    This being wordpress, just edit the template, probably in the header.php file, and delete this line:
    <a href=​"http:​/​/​azmovingservice.com">​</a>​
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    • Profile picture of the author Jagged
      Originally Posted by ItWasLuck3 View Post

      Ok I just checked it again... Like drewhowell21 pointed out, if you pull up firebug you'll see that extra line is the culprit.

      This being wordpress, just edit the template, probably in the header.php file, and delete this line:
      <a href=​"http:​/​/​azmovingservice.com">​</a>​

      I go to site admin / appearance / editor / hearder.php.....I do not see that link as it appears above, just PHP referrence to "nav"

      Would I delete this line in the underheader?
      It's the only place that I see a double referrence to 'home'

      <div id="underheader">
      <div id="toprss">
      </div>
      <h1 class="sitename"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
      <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>">
      <h2 class="sitedesc"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
      </div><!-- Closes underHeader -->


      Would it be easier if I PM'ed you the admin log-in so you can see it from the inside?

      Thanks...
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      • Profile picture of the author ItWasLuck3
        Originally Posted by Jagged View Post

        I go to site admin / appearance / editor / hearder.php.....I do not see that link as it appears above, just PHP referrence to "nav"

        Would I delete this line in the underheader?
        It's the only place that I see a double referrence to 'home'

        <div id="underheader">
        <div id="toprss">
        </div>
        <h1 class="sitename"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
        <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>">
        <h2 class="sitedesc"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
        </div><!-- Closes underHeader -->


        Would it be easier if I PM'ed you the admin log-in so you can see it from the inside?

        Thanks...
        Even though I'm not the kinda guy who would do anything, I'd be super careful considering giving out your information like that, don't know how many scummbags might try and play you for it.

        Anyway, I guess it wasn't there. Now does the theme your using allow you to edit your files from within WP? For example, the default template, you can edit basically the whole template; i.e. theres like 15 .php pages, and 3 .css pages that are editable.

        If thats the case, you might have to go FTP some of the files, but if not, maybe just check the "index.php" file. Besides that, all the code you posted is saying is that its going to pull the option to link to home from somewhere else on your blog, basically a dynamic link. Stuff like this is what helps you to not have to change the code every 5 minutes.

        Let me know if you can find the extra line break in the index.php file, if not, I think Lloyd has a good point, you're missing a "</a>" tag on the second link. Maybe throw that in...?
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  • Profile picture of the author RobKonrad
    Does the client have a login?

    I suspect some playing around with the menu section here....

    Cheers,
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  • Profile picture of the author Venus Brown
    I think everything is fine.You should surely consult to the client first and ask if any changes are being done through his end.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Have you checked Appearance/Menus? Take a look there before going nuts into code.
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